Training & Education

Transformative research

The head of the world’s leading gold-streaming company is making a $10-million donation to Laurentian University’s Department of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC). David Harquail was in Sudbury on Sept.

Laurentian University in Sudbury is holding an event Sept. 6 for what it says is the “largest funding announcement” in the school’s history.

The Frontenac open pit may have limited gold potential, but it’s perfect ground for the type of real-world training that Randy Becker wants to provide for First Nations.

Collège Boréal in Sudbury has a new president. Daniel Giroux will become the French post-secondary school’s fifth president on Sept. 1.

Northern College and Glencore’s Kidd Operations have signed an agreement to collaborate on training students for work in the mining industry through the Haileybury School of Mines. The signing formalizes an agreement that was announced in February.

Northern College is employing a unique method for re-establishing its bursary campaign: crowdfunding.

Collège Boréal will soon be offering a Motive Power Trades pre-apprenticeship program at its Sudbury and Timmins campuses.

Sudbury’s Laurentian University will be doing some target practice with minerals in the coming months if all goes to plan.

A new map launched by the Northern Policy Institute displays Northern Ontario’s infrastructure assets.